IBM Acquires ILOG
Published July 31st, 2008 Under News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
IBM and ILOG announced that they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and the United States. The cash tender offer will be at a price of €10 per ordinary share. This will amount to an aggregate purchase price of approximately €215 million or approximately $US340. This price represents a premium of approximately 56 percent compared to ILOG’s one month average of closing share prices prior to July 28, 2008, and a 37 percent premium to the closing price of Friday, July 25. Read more
Agile Development Teams: Scope and Scale with Mike Cohn
Published July 21st, 2008 Under Software Development, Videos | Leave a Comment
Agile Estimating and Planning” author, and Agile Alliance co-founder, Mike Cohn, provides detailed, proven techniques for estimating and planning any Agile project.
Agile Estimating and Planning supports any agile, semiagile, or iterative process, including Scrum, XP, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, DSDM, Unified Process, and many more. It will be an indispensable resource for every development manager, team leader, and team member.
Mike Cohn is the founder Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy that specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development. Mike is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and serves on its board of directors.
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